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disgust

[dis-guhst, dih-skuhst] / dɪsˈgʌst, dɪˈskʌst /




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Motivations include saving money, giving items to charity and disgust at how often perfectly usable items are being consigned to waste - or a combination of all three.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Watching someone insist on their version of reality in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary evokes all manner of emotions: disgust, anger, disbelief, admiration and, of course, doubt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Galán declined to be interviewed for Carr’s documentary, having been thoroughly raked over the coals once the public’s visceral disgust with “The Swan” got it canceled after its second season.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

A team of lab assistants spent months watching their reactions, coding facial expressions and scoring them against nine emotional behaviors: anger, disgust, happiness/amusement, contempt, sadness, embarrassment, fear, surprise and confusion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Gingersnipes looked at Clare with even more disgust than when she’d first seen his grisly face.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Mr. Berge uses these stories to illustrate one of his recurring themes: What disgusts in one context can delight in another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

She later said: "He knew exactly what he was doing. He stripped all dignity from our loved ones, and for what? Money? He disgusts me."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

“These past few nights we’ve seen a level that disgusts every good person in this city,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

“Violence is what I hate most, is what baffles me and disgusts me most,” Amis told The Associated Press in 2012.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2023

Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor disgusts, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

Monet was so disgusted by his country’s moral descent following the Dreyfus Affair that he stopped painting recognizable French subjects, concentrating for the rest of his life instead on his water lilies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

“I resent those who consider me talented for I am not. . . . I am disgusted with everything.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

"I am very disgusted to be here, to be paying this institution to be here," freshman Eliana Dolven-Miller said.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

No wonder disgusted fans have protested both inside and outside Angel Stadium all summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Anthony was equally disgusted with the wording of the Fourteenth Amendment, and she pledged that she would work against its ratification.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

It’s an unabashedly disgusting R-rated horror entry that plays with a longstanding suspicion of mine: There’s something scary about Method actors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Vance said he was “disgusted”—not by the disgusting ad, but by the Republicans who criticized it and who should instead “stop whining.”

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

In an open letter to The Columbus Dispatch newspaper, the city's former mayor Michael Coleman called the ad "the most vile, disgusting and lowest point I have ever seen in 35 years of political engagement."

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

It’s Hurts’ turn to receive some of that same criticism, I suppose, but what fuels it is especially disgusting.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

The exponential magnitude of germ growth is disgusting.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty


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